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The Body’s Will to Health Is the True Cure of Illness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Most people associate The Willpower with the mind.
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  We concentrate on achieving something and we set our mind to
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  it. And exercise, our will When the
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  issue turns to overcoming vital habits or bodily weaknesses,
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  however, we find that the mental will is much less effective.
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  And, in many cases, we try to resort to various methods of
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  Brute Force to gain control over them.
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  But we fail to recognize in all of this, is that the mental will
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  is most effective on the mental plane, but that there are also a
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  vital will and a physical will When we say someone is being
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  willful, we generally are referring to a vital action that
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  goes contrary to our mental conception of how things should
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  be. The mental will and the vital
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  will through their interaction with the physical body, can have
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  an impact on health. Yet in the end, it is the body's
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  own, will that determines Health?
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  Most people do not consider the body and it sells to be
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  conscious and therefore able to have an expression of, will they
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  look on the body purely as a type of Machinery?
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  Yet, if we examine the body more closely, We see activities that
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  go beyond simple machinery. And of course, the Machinery of
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  you only go so far before it breaks down.
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  Clearly, it is not the mind that created the Machinery.
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  Nor can it control the Machinery at the cellular level.
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  Similarly, the vital force while it animates the physical body.
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  Clearly is not the designer and developer of the cellular
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  action. The mind is not direct cells on
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  how to carry out their specific functions.
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  Nor does the vital at the cellular level.
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  There are a number of functions that indicate a level of
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  intelligence and self-direction such as the ability of cells to
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  assimilate. And then, Deuce energy, the
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  action of the immune cells, the coding, and replication of the
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  detailed cellular structures and function.
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  The interactive nature of the different organs to coordinate
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  together to create a living being Etc.
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  The regular action of the immune system is clearly an expression
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  of the body's will to health. It is aided by the protective
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  action of the vital sheath or Aura.
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  But when once an illness gets inside that envelope, it is the
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  immune system that takes up the effort to restore the health
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  medicines. Applied from outside, are
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  adjuncts or Aids to the body's own resistance to disease or
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  illness. In the mother's agenda.
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  The mother goes into a deep and experiential review of the
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  cellular action and the aspiration and intentionality
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  that takes place at the cellular level as part of this review.
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  She makes clear that external treatments or medicines only go
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  a certain distance toward restoring and maintaining
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  health. It is the internal cellular
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  response the will in the selves that is the true source of
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  health and vibrant energy. The mother notes quote, wake up
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  in yourself, a will to conquer, not a mere will in the mind but
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  a will in the very cells of your body without that you can't do
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  anything. You may take 100 medicines, but
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  they won't cure you unless you have a will to overcome the
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  physical. Cool helmets.
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  The body is cured. If it has decided to be cured
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  and quote reference SRI aurobindo and the mother living
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  within the gogo approach to psychological health and growth,
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  disturbances of the body, and physical Consciousness will
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  discipline endurance Pages 88 to 90.